Sr. Thermal & Mechanical Packaging Engineer, Annapurna Labs

Amazon Amazon · Big Tech · Austin, TX · Hardware Development

This role focuses on the thermal and mechanical packaging of hardware for data centers, specifically within Amazon's Machine Learning Acceleration team. The engineer will be responsible for designing and optimizing hardware systems, from circuit design to large system design, and overseeing their manufacturing. The role involves working with new technologies for server deployments, ensuring high performance, quality, and cost-effectiveness. It requires expertise in semiconductor packaging, thermal analysis, and mechanical design, with a strong emphasis on simulation tools and hands-on lab experience.

What you'd actually do

  1. As a Sr. Thermal & Mechanical Packaging Engineer, you design and build the systems that are the heart of the world's largest and most powerful computing infrastructure.
  2. You develop from the lowest levels of circuit design to large system design including thermal and mechanical solutions and see those systems all the way through to high volume manufacturing.
  3. Your work has the potential to shape the hardware that goes into our cutting-edge data centers affecting millions of AWS users.
  4. Experience communicating with customers, technical, regulatory, business teams, and management to collect requirements, describe product features, and technical designs
  5. Master's degree in mechanical engineering or equivalent

Skills

Required

  • 5+ years industry experience in advanced packaging of semiconductors.
  • Direct experience in designing and testing of test vehicles to assess future packaging architectures and evaluating properties of next-generation materials.
  • Expertise in optimizing in packaging architectures to meet quality, performance, and cost goals.
  • 10+ years industry experience in mechanical design of semiconductor-based systems – silicon, packaging, and system design.
  • Industry experience of working with packaging component vendors and ODMs, and internal design teams on cross-boundary triaging, debugging, and resolving issues across organization.
  • Proficiency with simulation tools such as ANSYS, ABAQUS, COMSOL, FLOTHERM, ICEPACK or equivalent FEA/CFD software

Nice to have

  • Experience in advanced packaging metrologies for characterization, and design validation of semiconductor components, packages, and platforms.
  • Hands-on experience with lab-based thermal and mechanical measurements, including instrumentation, infrared thermography, acoustic chambers, mechanical stress/strain gauges, power measurement equipment, and thermal test setups for package and system-level characterization.
  • Strong understanding of product development lifecycles from concept through high volume manufacturing
  • Experience with various types of technologies used for Heatsink solutions, Thermal Interface Materials (TIMs) and liquid cooling technologies - including cold plate design.
  • Working knowledge on fans, UQDs, manifolds, and CDUs.
  • Developed detailed CFD and compact RC models for SoC and Package thermal analysis.
  • Experience correlating simulation models with experimental data and iterating designs based on empirical findings.
  • Demonstrated ability to design, set up, and execute experiments in a lab environment, including building custom test fixtures, operating data acquisition systems, and performing root-cause failure analysis on hardware.
  • Experience with Design of Experiments (DOE) and Six Sigma methodologies.
  • Knowledge of hardware and software based thermal / power management control algorithms
  • Validated thermal models through power/thermal measurements on Hardware

What the JD emphasized

  • advanced packaging of semiconductors
  • mechanical design of semiconductor-based systems
  • Proficiency with simulation tools such as ANSYS, ABAQUS, COMSOL, FLOTHERM, ICEPACK or equivalent FEA/CFD software